SARAH FLEISS

Described as "bright" and "stylish" by Opera News, American soprano Sarah Fleiss joins the 12th edition of Le Jardin des Voix with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie and Paul Agnew. She will travel internationally with the group over 2025, 2026, and 2027 singing La Poésie in Les arts florissants and Proserpine in La Descente d'Orphée aux Enfers by Marc Antoine Charpentier conducted by William Christie, and La Speranza in Il giardino di rose by Scarlatti conducted by Paul Agnew. On tour, she has enjoyed debuts at the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Lucerne Festival, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Philharmonie de Paris, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, and the Auditorio Principe Felipe, Oviedo. 

She also tours across Latin America with Curtis on Tour, singing Schubert's Shepherd on the Rock, a selection of songs from West Side Story and Peter Pan by Leonard Bernstein, and premiering a newly commissioned song cycle by composer Rene Orth. She will bring a recital of English song to the Woodmere Art Museum and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and the Trust Performing Arts Center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in collaboration with pianist Nikolay Verevkin.

 

A recent graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, her notable roles include Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro in a production by Marcus Shields with conductor Nicholas McGegan, the Vixen in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen, Ginevra in Handel’s Ariodante with conductor David Stern and the Tempesta di Mare orchestra, Despina in Mozart's Così fan Tutte, and as Sophie in the final trio of Der Rosenkavalier under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. 

 

A devoted recitalist, she has presented programs throughout the United States, and most recently brought Folk Music to Washington Performing Arts, Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota, and the Harvard Musical Association with collaborator Delvan Lin. She toured North America with Eric Owens and members of the Curtis Opera Theater singing the Brahms Neue Liebeslieder Op. 65., and along with Curtis Ensemble 20/21, premiered In the Fields, a song cycle written by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León. On the concert stage, she was heard as the soprano soloist in the Fauré Requiem with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and in Poulenc's Gloria and Dvořák's Te Deum with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra. She recently debuted with Tempesta di Mare in a program of early American music, with Hudson Baroque singing Handel's Messiah, and with the Dalton Chorale in the Brahms Requiem. 

 

Sarah was named the 2025 winner and the first ever vocalist to receive the Arthur W. Foote Award from the Harvard Musical Association, a Capital district winner of the 2025 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, the first place winner of the 2024 MI Opera and 2023 Hal Leonard Vocal Competitions, the emerging artist winner of the 2023 Rochester Oratorio Society Competition and the winner of the 2022 Shirley Rabb Winston Scholarship by the National Society of Arts and Letters. She has received grants from the George London Foundation, Voce di Meche, and Gerda Lissner Foundation, and awards from the Opera Index Foundation, Orpheus Vocal Competition, the Camile Coloratura Awards, and the Mascarade Opera Foundation.

 

She has trained at the Georg Solti Accademia in Tuscany, the Aspen Music Festival as a Renée Fleming Artist, HGO’s YAVA, the Music Academy of the West, and the Atelier Lyrique at the Verbier Festival. She completed her Master's of Music and Bachelor's of Music degrees at the Curtis Institute of Music. For her Master's Project, she created a lecture recital based on the life and performances of Anna Moffo, famed Curtis alumna. Prior to Curtis, she attended Columbia University and the Juilliard-Exchange program.